The general idea of the thread was that if other countries can provide "free" healthcare and education with similar tax rates, why don't Americans want the same.
General consensus was that they would but it's not apples with apples.
Why do so many Americans reject socialism?
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General consensus was that they would but it's not apples with apples.
No!
You're right, the money must come from somewhere, which is why I put it in quotation marks. But assuming everything is equal, if one economy charges for a service and the other doesn't, it is comparatively free.
Nope, it's still not free, someone earned that money and was forced to pay for it, Def not free in any sense of the word free
I think publicly funded or tax funded works, it's just so far from free, that "free" doesn't accuratly describe any thing about it.
No one, but I'll take hundreds of billions of $
I think it's kind of arrogant to tell people what they do or don't need. Oh what they can or can not have.
How is that arrogant?
Well just because you can't see a reason why someone may want a load of money, doesn't mean they need to justify it. Maybe they want to swim in cash like Scrooge McDuck
Because you feel you know what's best for everyone and how much of something they can have.
Sitting on wealth like that is weird. It's no longer about quality of life, it's about power. You're hoarding currency for fuck knows what reason. The whole monetary system is hilarious anyway. I'd love to speak to one of those Mr. Burns looking Jewish banker guys on their death bed and ask them what's the plan?
If I was telling someone I don't think you NEED access to affordable basic healthcare I feel that would be arrogant. But saying someone doesn't need their 48th Billion? Nah.
So because it's weird to you people shouldn't be able to do it? Fuck if that's how the world works we wouldn't have mma, butt sex, etc.
And I don't see how setting up your family for continued wealth and prosperity for generations to come is weird? Granted that's only one of many possible reasons.
There is affordable healthcare, I have affordable healthcare because I made good choices and have a good job. Others can do the same without handouts from everyone else.
When it's at the expense of millions of others wellbeing then I don't think it should be allowed. Not to mention, I would almost guarantee the wealth has been obtained via criminal means.
I don't think everyone is in the same boat, especially in the US
Anything to base this off of besides a dislike for people with more money that you?
They could. My family didn't have jack shit just a generation ago
LMAO.
I feel like you think I'm taking about millionaires. Im taking Saudi Prince slave drivers. Russian Oligarchs. Not Bob Smith down the road with a Porsche.
The list of things you're worried about giving up is quite telling. I'd bet good money mattbattle.com is in your sear